- #1
fanieh
- 274
- 12
Please give list of superceded theories in which the classical version is outdated and where the classical version is still required, for example:
In going from Newtonian gravity to General Relativity, we can do away with Newtonian gravity and use only General Relativity...
In the atom, we can bypass directly Bohr version of the atom and go directly to quantum mechanics...
But in classical electromagnetic field, we can't eliminate it and go directly to quantum field theory because we still need the Maxwell equation in knowing the full behavior of light. But not in General Relativity where we don't need the Newtonian equation.. and not in quantum mechanics where we don't need to know the Bohr model of the atom. So please give other examples as I'd like to have idea how to distinguish theories that can be superceded and those that are still required. Thank you.
In going from Newtonian gravity to General Relativity, we can do away with Newtonian gravity and use only General Relativity...
In the atom, we can bypass directly Bohr version of the atom and go directly to quantum mechanics...
But in classical electromagnetic field, we can't eliminate it and go directly to quantum field theory because we still need the Maxwell equation in knowing the full behavior of light. But not in General Relativity where we don't need the Newtonian equation.. and not in quantum mechanics where we don't need to know the Bohr model of the atom. So please give other examples as I'd like to have idea how to distinguish theories that can be superceded and those that are still required. Thank you.